“Something very worrying is happening in France.”
Writing Summer of Long Knives meant spending a lot of time immersed in the crimes of the Nazi regime. It would be pleasant to imagine that those crimes, and the mindset…
Stuff I’m Up To
Just a quick update on the projects I'm working on here at Snowden Labs. 1. MMIP Riffs, a movie riffing project for theinternetplayhouse. Our first movie will be one I've…
George Carlin On Not Giving A Shit
I'm still working on this. I currently give .02% of a shit, which means I'd have to carry 5,000 shits around with me in order to give one shit. When…
With One Click, You Too Can Be A Guru
Anyone who's caught Deepak Chopra on a chat show has heard the New Age rap, a stew of religious patter and scientific sounding buzzwords. Spoken with style, the showy incoherencies that are Chopra's…
I’ll Let Someone Else Tell You For the 11,341st Time: The US is Not A Police State
Being a blogger quickly teaches you how poor a weapon blogging is for killing off zombie ideas. Still, try we must. A little bit ago, I addressed myself to Doctor Ben…
Fred Phelps Is Dead
Over at Slate, Tyler Lopez ponders the question of how the LGBT community should handle his death: Some have suggested picketing Phelps’ funeral, much as his church protested at thefunerals of…
When Jon Stewart Asks For #McConnelling, I McConnell
What is McConnelling? I'll let Jon Stewart expound upon its storied origins. http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:433735 The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on Facebook I did…
Dear Ben Carson,
Dear Ben Carson, When I get mad, I tell myself I shouldn't post on the blog. I should take a walk, hum a little tune, think of 2001: A Space…
Game Theory and “Confession”
Among the Italian Supreme Court's reasons for overturning Amanda Knox's acquittal was their belief that her statement to the police, in which she placed herself at the murder scene and…
Portrait of Denialism: The Magical Thinking of Mike McGrath
Kathryn Schulz's Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, which I'll probably praise to the skies once I'm through with it, pointed me to a particularly extreme case of post-hoc…